(Released to the press by comrades Abhay and
Krantipriya, spokespersons of the respective parties)

On this occasion of the International
day of the world proletariat, the glorious May Day, we the Maoists of India,
with a great sense of responsibility and firm conviction, announce the merger
of the CPI (Maoist) and CPI(M-L) Naxalbari into a single party, to be known as
CPI(Maoist). Thus strengthening the vanguard of the Indian proletariat, which
is a contingent of the world proletariat, we dedicate ourselves evermore firmly
to the cause of the Indian revolution and the world proletarian revolution.

The Maoist movement took form through the great
Naxalbari uprising of 1967. Inspired and
led by comrades Charu Mazumdar and Kanhai Chatterjee, founder leaders of our
party, thousands of leaders, cadres and masses laid down their invaluable lives
to advance the revolutionary movement and build a strong party.

After the setback of early 1970s and the
martyrdom of comrade Charu Mazumdar, the communist revolutionary forces were
divided into many groups. The genuine revolutionaries while trying to build the
movement in their respective areas made serious attempts to unify all
revolutionaries into a single party. In the course of this process over the
last four decades the two main streams represented by the erstwhile CPI (ML)
(People’s War) and the MCCI merged into a single party, the CPI (Maoist), on 21st September 2004. This marked a qualitative leap
in realizing a long drawn aspiration of the workers, peasants and other
oppressed masses to build a single directing centre leading the new democratic
revolutionary war in India to success and marching forward to establishing
socialism and then communism. Similarly, the CPI (ML) Naxalbari made serious
efforts to unify all genuine Maoist forces by fighting against the revisionism
of erstwhile CRC, CPI (ML) led by the liquidationist K. Venu and Red Flag led
by the opportunist KN Ramachandran. As a culmination of these processes the two
parties the CPI (Maoist) and CPI (ML) Naxalbari have unified, thus our party,
the CPI (Maoist), have been further strengthened. This unification has proved
beyond doubt that, on the one hand, by mobilising oppressed masses in
Protracted People’s War against the ruling classes and imperialism and, on the
other, by adhering to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the revolutionary line of the
party and waging persistent struggle against the revisionists and
liquidationists, all the genuine Maoist forces can unite into a single party,
however long a process it might be. Our party shall continue the task of
unifying all the genuine revolutionary forces functioning in various ML groups.

The unified party takes Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
as its guiding ideology and deepens its understanding by upholding, defending
and applying it creatively. Continuously summing up the lessons of its
revolutionary practice and learning from the experiences of the revolutionary
contingents of the proletariat and struggling people all over the world it
develops its line and practice. It shoulders the tasks of carrying out the
anti-feudal, anti-imperialist new democratic revolution. This revolution leads
to socialism and further to communism by continuing the revolution through
cultural revolutions. Imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism are the
targets of the new democratic revolution, whose main content is the armed
agrarian revolution. The path of revolution is that of protracted people’s war.
The contradiction between feudalism and the broad masses is principal. It
considers that the contradiction between imperialism and the oppressed nations
and peoples is the principal contradiction at the world level. It is
intensifying along with the other basic contradictions in the world.

The unity now achieved gives a boost to the
capacity of the CPI (Maoist) to better fulfill its role as the vanguard of the
Indian revolution. Over decades of arduous struggle, sacrificing thousands of
lives of great communist leaders, red fighters and oppressed masses, the CPI
(Maoist) has developed the people’s war in India to the level where guerilla
bases and red political power, in the form of Revolutionary Peoples Committees,
have been established in central and eastern India, protected by the People’s
Liberation Guerilla Army and the People’s Militia. This has been achieved by
fighting against most vicious suppression campaigns, now concentrated in
Operation Green Hunt - a war against the people. As part of this, tens of
thousands of people have been brutally attacked. Murder, rape, burning down
houses and destroying crops, forcible displacement and many other inhuman
practices are common. Now the Indian state is actively rehearsing airborne and
ground attack with its air force and army. But despite this murderous onslaught
the protracted people’s war continues to advance in waves. The recent expansion
it has made in the southern part of the Western Ghats situated along the
western coast of the Indian peninsula is proof that the flames of revolution
will continue to spread till the Indian state, this pillar of imperialism in South
Asia, is destroyed.

When the imperialists and their lackey ruling
classes all over the world are trapped in an unabated crisis, the favourable
revolutionary situation in the world has led to intense class struggles in the
imperialist world and people’s wars led by Maoists and anti-imperialist
struggles by other forces in oppressed countries. In India, on the one hand,
the ruling classes have deployed four lakhs of its mercenary forces in central
and eastern India, where the class struggle has reached the stage of intense
revolutionary civil war, emerging as a revolutionary alternative, which is
inspiring vast oppressed masses towards revolution and is concretised in the
formation of People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and the new democratic
state in its embryonic form. It is stepping up militarisation of Western Ghats
to crush the budding revolutionary armed struggle. On the other hand, it is
forcibly thrusting the anti-people globalisation policies on the workers,
peasants, adivasis, dalits, women and other oppressed masses, leading to an
increase in militant struggles. Utilising this favourable situation the party
will make greater efforts to advance the revolutionary movement to a higher
level and better fulfill its international tasks. It will strive go all out to
mobilise the masses in lakhs, intensify and expand the guerrilla war, meet the
critical challenges faced by the revolutionary movement and overcome them.

Painfully aware of the deep suffering and misery
in which the vast majority of the people are forced to live in India and the
world over by the inhuman world imperialist system, conscious of the
devastation caused by this system on the global environment and the very
existence of life on this earth, cherishing the memories of the thousands of
martyrs who laid down their lives for the cause of communism, and rallying
under the Red Flag crimson with their blood, we pledge to make this unity we
have achieved a powerful weapon of revolution.